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Producing more and more accurate data on the human brain is the goal of all imaging methods used in hospitals today. Scanning the electrical activity of the cortex, or determining firing patterns within various areas of the brain are objectives that require complex medical procedures. In spite of recent advancements,... |
23 January 2010
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A group of archaeologists from the UK have unearthed an ancient skull that dates back from the Roman invasion, 2,000 years ago. Surprisingly, the head of the unlucky person it used to belong to was not buried along with the body, but that's not the oddest part. When she was attempting to clean the discovered sku... |
13 December 2008
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Recent anthropological studies revealed that the head of large dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, was more filled with sinuses than with brains, which seems to have prompted their remarkable ability of catching the prey, despite their bulky mass and constitution. CT scans of their heads revealed that the amount of... |
9 December 2008
16:31 GMT |
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One of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations was the Inca empire, stretching through the highlands of Andes, in today's Ecuador, Peru, south Columbia, western Bolivia and northwest Argentina. The Inca civilization was outstanding because of its colossal architecture, its cities with paved and regular st... |
14 May 2008
16:41 GMT |
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They are considered the rams of the dinosaur world. But the dome-headed dinosaurs were able to batter their heads only when teenagers, to avoid brain damage, as revealed by a new research published in the Palaeontologia Electronica journal. The pachycephalosaurs or thick-headed dinosaurs, not very large (up to 5 m (1... |
29 March 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Our closest evolutionary relative was the Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis). But when did we share a common ancestor? A new research published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows that gradual changes in human skull size and shape would indicate that, 300,000 to 400,000 years a... |
18 March 2008
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You could have not imagined a human surviving the thrust of a knife in the head. Especially in the case of a 10-year-old child. But BBC News has reported this odd case from Afghanistan.Major Stephen Gallacher, a Territorial Army medical officer from Caernarfon in Gwynedd, saved the life of a 10-year-old Afghan boy w... |
13 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Head hunting was a common practice in many Indigenous societies, from the Jivaro of the Amazon basin to the Dayaks of Borneo and many other Malay-Polynesian groups in Indonesia and Pacific islands. One of the most feared head hunter populations inhabits the island of New Guinea. The Asmat tribe is famous for its bloo... |
12 March 2008
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When Toumai ("Hope of Life" in the local Goran language) was found in Chad in 2001, that changed all the theories about human evolution. This ape-like human lived in a forested area, sharing its habitat with other monkeys and apes. It probably spent some time in the trees and perhaps walked upright.A French team has ... |
29 February 2008
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Classical theory says Homo sapiens left Africa 50-60,000 years ago, entering Asia. But a new human skull, dated to be 80,000 to 100,000 years old, found in China, could rewrite the human evolution. The shattered fossil has been found in the Henan province, by a team led by Chinese archaeologist Li Zhanyang. While the... |
21 February 2008
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Men are bigger than women and they have a reputation as being more thick-headed than the females. And here comes the surprise delivered by a new research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Safety: in fact, women have thicker skulls then men!The team made of researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianj... |
25 January 2008
05:49 GMT |
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First of all, I can understand that there are people out there freaking out as they see something that looks pretty much like a dead human's skull, but from this to saying that some plastic skull-shaped mini speakers are sick is a very-very long way. I showed these funny speakers to some friend and she was compl... |
24 January 2008
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Don't be fooled by the humble size of a mouse or rat because their extinct relatives were bigger than cows. And now, the largest rodent ever has been discovered: a one tonne Josephoartigasia monesi, as big as a big bison bull, which lived 2 million years ago.The impressive skull of 53 cm (1.8 ft) in length was e... |
16 January 2008
04:13 GMT |
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In the video games world, there are different categories of gamers: the dorky gamer that just loves to play games all day long; the normal gamer that loves to play games but see girls and friends over a beer and generally has a life too; and the unscrupulous gamer that is a dorky one who also hacks in consoles and ac... |
31 October 2007
06:27 GMT |
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This was a giant in the world of the duck-billed dinosaurs. It lived in what is now southern Utah, some 75 million years ago. The well-preserved skull reveals a muscular vegetarian, with hundreds of teeth and huge jaws. "It could have eaten whatever [vegetation] was in its way," said lead researcher Terry Gates, a pa... |
4 October 2007
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You can imagine the shock of the scientists looking in 2003 for traces of ancient human migration from Asia to Australia to stumble onto a new human species where they least expected: the "hobbit" human species discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. A vivid debate tried to establish whether the "Flores man" w... |
24 September 2007
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A dead zebra in the African savanna means a fiesta for the vultures around. But if we're talking about dead whales, this fiesta can last for decades. And there are specialized marine communities which are adapted for this purpose. This is called whale fall and the first recognized one was in 1989 in southern Ca... |
21 September 2007
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The head hunters from the rainforest could definitely not achieve this. A diamond-covered human skull made by British artist Damien Hirst was sold to an investment group for $100 million.The skull named "For the Love of God" has a platinum top, 8,601 gemstones embedded on it and it is regarded as the world's mos... |
5 September 2007
16:11 GMT |
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This is one of the most mysterious cultures of the New World. The obscure native culture named Gallina occupied a small zone of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100 but by 1275 they were all gone. Now, seven Gallina skeletons (five adults, one child and one infant), appearing to have been victims of a brutal mass... |
16 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Indian smugglers do not trade only with the bones of the endangered tigers, but also with those of their co-nationals. Indian police has arrested a gang of four men in the city of Jaigaon, who had hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones which they were going to pass into the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Bu... |
25 June 2007
09:24 GMT |
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This is like finding the tomb of Jesus: archaeologists have discovered the oldest gunshot victim amongst Native Americans, nearly 500 years old. "We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost round hole and thought people must have been shooting around here recently. But the skull was ancient, and a ... |
20 June 2007
08:42 GMT |
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The cute aspect of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, turned this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. Even if a real bear, this species eats 99 % bamboo. Now researchers have discovered the fossil skull of the earliest known bear from the panda genus (Ailuropo... |
19 June 2007
06:21 GMT |
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What best characterizes a monkey or an ape?It's the big brain.But when researchers got a new fossil of a common ancestor of monkeys and apes (humans included), they found out that the 29 million-year-old creature has not such a big brain as expected. "The finding indicated that primate brain enlargement evolved ... |
15 May 2007
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Romans considered themselves civilized, seeing the others - with the exception of the Greeks - as barbarians. But between 264 BC and 404 AD, the Roman society enjoyed some of the cruelest and inhuman games: the gladiator fights, a sport in which thousands of people were slaughtered in the Roman arenas for the delight... |
4 May 2007
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The ferocious bites of a tiger or crocodile haunt our imagination. But the biting ability is an adaptation to life on land. The question is: when did biting evolve?A new study shows that ancient fish could have evolved in ancient bony fish.Bony fish predominantly catch their prey by suction, easy to see if you watch... |
17 April 2007
04:07 GMT |
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